If humans are indeed the most evolved species, why do so many of us suffer from developmental or genetic diseases? Phys.org explains why, unlike our ape ancestors, humans are still paying the price for losing our tails. https://flip.it/DX01o9
#Science #Humans #Biology #Evolution
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Thirty years after the first exoplanets were discovered, hundreds of additional exoplanets have been identified within the “habitable zone,” a place where liquid water and maybe even life may exist. The MIT Press Reader asks, could a self-sustaining starship carry humans to distant worlds? https://flip.it/0q093h
#Science #Space #SolarSystem #Planets #Humans #SpaceExploration
Does a potential treatment for Parkinson’s disease already exist? Researchers have recently discovered more about how the disease spreads and a cancer drug that has proven effective on mice. More from @ScienceAlert:
This is my childhood friend Kevin's "Big Stick" emblem. He had* severe hemophilia and the Big Stick is a rite of passage that he's taken part in for over 20 years at an activity camp for kids with hemophilia.
Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder where your body doesn't make enough clotting factor to stop bleeds. This means that there is no such thing as a minor injury. It's not just cuts and scrapes. You pull a muscle? There's bleeding that has to be controlled.
Hemophiliacs have to administer clotting factor from an IV to stop bleeds. At this camp, the kids will reach an important rite of passage. They learn a crucial skill they'll need to become independent. The kids will self infuse their own IV for the first time.
Kevin's at the camp for work reasons, but he's also volunteering to give back. He hand carves every child their own custom stick trophy to award to them after they've taken a needle and made their "big stick".
*-He still has hemophilia, but cutting edge therapies improved it.
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Most dog owners would do just about anything to ensure their pets’ comfort — including identify when they’re in pain. But we humans probably aren’t as good as that as we’d like to think. Turns out dogs do a pretty good job of hiding their pain. Read more from @ScienceAlert:
#Development #Analyses
Websites are not going to die · “The AI web will actually strengthen the IndieWeb.” https://ilo.im/16dazo
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#OpenWeb #Google #AI #Humans #Content #Blog #Website #Communities #IndieWeb #SmallWeb
🤖🤖🤖🤖 NEW AI THREAD 🧠🧠🧠🧠
Guess it's time to collect some #ai sources that I notice on my daily digital endeavours. 🤓
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Let's start with this #interview that #GeoffreyHinton gave #CBS just lately. I find that #kindergarden allegory quite fascinating - #humans would be the kids that won't understand what's going on while the digital adults pull the strings.
Given the state of the world, I'm not sure if that has to be a bad thing.
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I’m starting to see a troubling trend: #democrat first time candidates going after the current administration but also failing to stand up for or even throw #trans people under the bus.
Say it with me.
#transpeople are not disposable.
We are not a #fringe issue
We’re fucking #humans.
Turns out, boredom may have some advantages. @ScienceAlert explains in more detail, including how we all need to “embrace the pause.”
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"Humans" turns 10 this week. Find out what other shows are celebrating milestone anniversaries in Hotchka's TV By the Decade.
https://hotchka.com/tv-by-the-decade-353
#Hotchka #TVByTheDecade #Humans #Entertainment #Television #TV
Humans have wanted to live longer for centuries. A drug discovered decades ago might show promise. Read more from @ScienceAlert:
Sadly, the world is an unsafe place for #humans and other #animals, don't you think?
Some of us try to alleviate the suffering of certain groups.
Personally, I focus on non-human animals.
On #Mastodon and #Pixelfed, I meet many different people 💜
Unfortunately, not all of them are #Vegan. Hey, that's your karma 😇 but I've written a piece about how I feel when someone shares photos online of animal body parts that they're going to eat.
Summary: Pretty please don't.
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@robpumphrey/116464053406935299
I see we blew past “the robots are more important than people” and we’re already at “the robots [are entitled to] have more rights than pedestrians” and “we need them to break laws so we can make more money”.
Super.
Shot the annual Shiny Side Up bike and car show in San Jose yesterday... no, it's not that kind of bike show.
This is a very Northern California kind of show. It's a low rider "cruiser bike" and low rider car show with other kinds of bike and bike related celebrations included.
One of those bike celebrations are BMX stunt performances. I'll have additional photos from the show coming soon, but some of the BMX shots are just too fun not to share.
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META’S REAL AI WAS HIDING
IN PLAIN SIGHT. 💎
I watched a video this morning called 'The (Overdue) Collapse of Meta,' expecting another story about a giant technology company finally coming unstuck.
BUT THAT REALLY WASN'T THE STORY.
Meta is still making extraordinary amounts of money.
The metaverse was a spectacular failure. Zuckerberg renamed the company around it, talked about a billion people eventually inhabiting virtual worlds, and poured tens of billions of dollars into trying to make it happen.
PEOPLE MOSTLY DIDN'T COME.
But while everyone was laughing at cartoon legs and expensive headsets, something else inside Meta was working extraordinarily well.
THE ADVERTISING MACHINE
For more than a decade, Meta has been using AI to learn from the tiny signals produced by billions of human brains. What we stop to look at. What we click. What we ignore. What keeps us scrolling?
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO BUY
And increasingly, what we might be about to do. That system became astonishingly good at turning human behaviour into advertising revenue. Which changes the story rather dramatically.
META DIDN'T FAIL TO BUILD POWERFUL AI.
It was built years ago. It just wasn't sitting there chatting pleasantly to us. It was behind Facebook and Instagram, watching behaviour and learning how to predict it.
And the enormous advertising business generated by that machinery is now helping to finance Meta's next gigantic gamble: superintelligence, data centres, researchers, and infrastructure costing tens of billions of dollars.
There is something almost perfect about that. The metaverse failed because people didn't particularly want what Meta was selling. The advertising machine succeeded because we WERE what Meta was selling. And perhaps that is the part worth paying attention to.
Because sometimes the most important question about technology isn't:
DID IT WORK?
It is:
WHAT DID IT LEARN TO DO TO US?
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #SocialMedia #BigTech #Privacy #Technology #DigitalRights #people #humans #brain
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#Indigenous peoples
‘This is #colonialism for clicks’: the #influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most #isolatedTribes
I don't often use the word #evil but it is necessary here ...
May have to write a sequel to this ancient feature:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-last-free-living-humans.html